Motivational Quotes

Love

The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.

- Gibran, Kahlil

Best Quotes about Love

Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent.

William Shakespeare

We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

Freud, Sigmund

Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.

The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

Byron, Lord

Practice being at home with yourself, as you step out to be with others.

Wieder, Marcia

A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

W. Somerset Maugham

10.

And you are to love those who are your aliens for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt. [Deuteronomy 10:19]

Bible

11.

Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.

William Penn

12.

Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.

Thurber, James

13.

Love is the direct opposite of hate. By definition it's something you can't feel for more than a few minutes at a time, so what's all this bullshit about loving somebody for the rest of your life?

Rossner, Judith

14.

If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

Martineau, Harriet

15.

As Plato sometimes speaks of the divine love, it arises not out of indigency, as created love does, but out of fullness and redundancy; it is an overflowing fountain, and that love which descends upon created being is a free efflux from the almighty source of love; and it is well pleasing to him that those creatures which he hath made should partake of it.

16.

There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.

Sand, George

17.

If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.

Horton, Doug

18.

Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

19.

This world is not for aye, nor'tis not strange That even our loves should with our fortunes change. For'tis a question left us yet to prove, Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.

William Shakespeare

20.

Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies.

William Shakespeare

21.

Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

22.

I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.

Osgood, Samuel

23.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

24.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

25.

She hadn't chosen him over all the others. The truth was that she hadn't even thought about anyone else.

Paolo Giordano

26.

A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.

Tebbets, Frank

27.

Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

28.

O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day!

William Shakespeare

29.

The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.

Meredith, George

30.

The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

31.

Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

Aragon, Louis

32.

Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

Fromm, Erich

33.

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.

Nin, Anais

34.

If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

Barrie, Sir James M.

35.

Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love.

Proverb

36.

Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.

Hardenberg, Novalis

37.

Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.

Blanton, Smiley

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Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

39.

Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

40.

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transform.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

41.

Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

42.

Sure I love Goldie. How could you not love Goldie? Everyone loves Goldie. I love her, and I hope our love will continue, but I don't want to give an I-love-Goldie-Hawn interview.

Russell, Kurt

43.

Doubt that the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.

William Shakespeare

44.

We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.

Layton, Irving

45.

One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

46.

We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

Buber, Martin

47.

Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.

Randy K. Milholland

48.

I am a big believer in the mirror test. All that matters is if you can look in the mirror and honestly tell the person you see there, that you've done your best.

McKay, John

49.

The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy --yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.

Algren, Nelson

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Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost